The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-02-17
OF People Whom the World in Genera
Knows Something About.

Knows Something About.
A son of Kit Carson resides in los Angeles,
and is struggling with poverty.
Mrs. Logan is in receipt of requests from
various publishers TO do literary work.
jay Gould has just purchased little pioS
of ground in Louisiana IL comprises 2oo,oov
acres of signing pines.
Prince Albert Victor of Wales has COM
pleted his Esd year, but is stlll one of the least
known members of the royal family. nc
seldom appears in public.
Frederick Krupp, the son of the great gun
maker wants to get into the reichstag. lie
has taken the stump Nationalist.
James Hoag, of Cedar Springs, Mich, ~
tho smallest man of his age now living. he
is IS inches in height weighs 76 pounds, ana
is ~ years old. He was born in 1915.
Mrs. Grants sympathy with the project of
erecting a monument in New York city to
her late husbands memory is attested by her
gift of S9S2. 80 to the Grant Monument a.
sociation.
Baron de Jeost, of Paris, noted all his life
for his cruel treatment of oil men and animals
he came in contact with, has left his whole
estate of S500,000 to the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals.
Miss Emily Bartol, daughter OF Rev. DIR.
Bartol, of Boston, has completed the studies
which she has been making Of Frederick
| Douglass, and will at once embody them in
| portrait
Some friends who called on Madame Mod
| jeska the other day aU her hotel in Boston
| found her and her husband like Darby and
| Joan she playing solitaire, and he with news
| paper and slipl1rs.
| al
| rarely into society now, and attends no gen
cral receptions, but he is exceedingly careful
| to acknowledge with some neat phrase the in
| vitations he declines
Mrs Mary Murphy, of ST. Louis, who
claims to be ITO years old, is now cutting four
teeth. She says that her mother lived to he
| lie years old, and cut an entire set of teeth
one year before she died. Mrs. Murphy's
mind feels the stress of her many years, but
her appetite is unimpaired.
| J. w. Bool,walter, of Ohio, who has just
returned from Europe for the twentieth time,
says: "From what l could sec think the
| Germans would whip the French again.
| France is full of soldiers, but they all have
| boyish, smallish look, and mako no great i'm
preston on strangers"
Capt. William McMickan, of the Cunarder
master, few days ago completed his 402d
trip across the Atlantic without accident.
Jan. 20 purse of s., 600 was presented to him
as a testimonial on the part of q number of
his friends in New York.
Mr. Jones Gilman Clark who has just
| given 81, 900, 600 to found a college in Massa-
| chusettS, was born on a farm, grew up, got
little schooling, learned a trade or two, sold
tinware of his own make TO the peddlers,
| opened a rag and junk store, which subse-
| quen.ly became hardware store, went to
| California in 1S49 made his pile in business,
sold gold during the war at the war premium
| and invested in government bonds, subse-
quently made lucky investments in real
estate, and is now worth nobody knows how
much.
| Representative S. s. Cox is recovering
from his severe Illness In private dictated
note to friend in this city he says that no
suffered a million deaths, but was liftef
through by two pictures, one on each side of
his bed, of life boat going out and one
coming in. "Knowing," he says, "that my
system had already saved nearly $4,000 lives,
thought perhaps could hold the rudder and
pull through" He adds: II wish some good
writer would show tho effect of such associa-
tions on human misery and happiness"
"A private letter from Bill Nye to Chi
cago friend" says Tho News of that city,
contains the unwelcome information that the
popular humorist's health, SO far from being
improved seems to be becoming poorer and
poorer In fact, Mr.. Nye writes that he has
been compelled to abandon literary work al
together and he fears that, if a change
for the better doesn't set in pretty soon, he
will have to take to his bed and surrender
himself wholly to the doctors care Ho is
still at Ashevillc, N. c., and he intends to re.
main there for the winter. 1t is apparent
that he is very much discouraged about him.
SELF
The death has recently occurred of James
Nicholson, the last survivor of the storm
beaten passengers of the Forfarshire who
were rescued by Grace Darling. He never
forgot that awful night, when, as he and oil
in the rigging thought, an angel, with long,
yellow hair flowing in the wind appeared,
pulling vigorously to-thoir ships side through
the storm and drift; but he very rarely spoke
of it. He, however, had enough OF the sea,
and for twenty-six years afterward ho drove
locomotive on the Edinburgh and Glas.
gov railroad. He was II years of age and
in the employment of an oil company when
he died-New York Tribune.